BEWARE A Haunting!!! Handstamped Sentiments #474

 Halloween will be upon us soon and already I see hauntings everywhere. For the inspiration challenge at Hand stamped sentiments #474 I made a slimline card featuring a haunted house.

To create the card, I created the background by using blender brushes  and ink.  On a 4 by 8 1/2" piece of Basic White card stock, I lightly adhered a 3 1/4" circle as a mask for the moon near the top.  With a blender brush I first applies Balmy blue ink, followed by Pacific Point, and then Night of Navy ink. Stars were created by using thin white paint and a paint brush and flicking the brush against a pencil. After removing the mask, Daffodil Delight was applied to the moon.

A piece of Old Olive cardstock was embossed with the bark embossing folder and sponged with Old  Olive ink. This was added to the bottom.

Using the dies from Creative Expressions "Haunted House" the haunted house was build .  I placed yellow vellum behind the windows before adhering it to the card front using dimensionals. Two bare trees were added - one behind the house and one below near the grave yard.

Three white ghosts floated eerily from the mansion's windows, and bats fill the moonlight.

Three gravestones (the Grim Reaper) tilt along the lower part below the scary work BEWARE!!

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Haunted House, Grim Reaper, Witching Hour

Inks:  Balmy Blue, Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Old |Olive, Basic Gray

Papers:  Basic White, Basic black, Basic Gray, Old Olive, Vellum (colored yellow)

Accessories:  Dies from Haunted House, Grim Reaper, Witching Hour, Bark embossing folder, dimensionals, 3 1/4" circle die

The Shades of Fall for Try a Sketch on Tuesday#681 and Double Trouble #202

 Autumn is probably my favourite time of year. The colours of the leaves of the trees are so vibrant- hues of red, orange, yellow, and green - colours I am going to bring into the card I made for the challenge with Try and Sketch  on Tuesday #681   and Double Trouble  #202       

 

Halloween is close as well.  So, I have included some Halloween elements in the design of the card front.  Can you find them?  There are 5.

The card base is Basic White card stock, layered with Cajun Craze card stock.  The front layer is Basic white embossed with the Falling Leaf Embossing folder. The edges of this layer are sponged with Cajun Craze ink.

I started by die cutting some Autumn Splendor DSP using a small Countryside Corners Die. Then , on a scrap piece of Basic White card stock, I stamped images from various stamp sets - a pumpkin, gourd, carrot, apple, pepper, corn - coloured and  then fussy cut them.  I added a few Halloween images -5 in total.  The harvest images were arranged on a small oval die cut in Basic White, some adhered using dimensionals, some not. This completed selection of Harvest vegetables was added to the bottom portion of the die cut DSP.

Instead of hexagons, the images of which appear on the sketch, I used falling leaves.  To make the leaves I used blending brushes to add ink in the colours listed at the beginning of the post, covering the entire surface of a 4 by 5" a piece of watercolor paper. The finished piece was spritzed with water and the paper maneuvered to allow the colours to blend and mix.     

After this piece was dry, I used the Autumn Leaf dies to die cut the leaves and arrange them on the card front.   

The left over leaves were added to the inside.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Autumn Leaves, Miscellaneous stamps. Grim Reaper

Inks:  Cajun Craze, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Stampin Blends

Papers:  Basic white, Watercolor Paper, Autumn Splendor DSP  Basic Black, Cajun Craze

Accessories:  Grim Reaper dies, Layering Oval die, Countryside Corner die, Falling Leaf Embossing Folder. Embellishments

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     I believe I have met the 3-2-1 challenge at Double Trouble and because I have used Pumpkins and  Autumn Leaves  on my card, I am submitting my card to the Pearly Sparkles Challenge # 112                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Card a winner at Try a Sketch on Tuesday

 The following card was selected at TSOT # 680  as one of the top 3 picks of the week.

Below is the picture

A Beary Merry Christmas for The challenge Aunt Hand Stamped Sentiments #473

 I’m trying hard to get into the mood for making Christmas cards and I’m valiantly trying, but I draw the line at including snow on my cards. Not when the outside temperate resembles the middle of July. Not when the flowers in my planters are blooming like it’s the middle of July. Not when I’m working in the garden wearing shorts and a tee shirt like it’s the middle of July. To top everything up , even if I made cards. Cards could not get mailed as there is a nation wide postal strike!!!

Well you get the picture.

However, since I need Christmas cards to hand out I decided to use the sketch with HSS #473 as an  opportunity to make a Christmas card.

Below is my

 I used the Christmas Friends bundle to create this card. Since it was the Bear that I used for this card I decided to create the card from the inside of the bear den, with the circle facing to the outside.

Lining the den is a piece of Farmhouse DSP torn at the top and bottom. After tearing. I added  Versamark ink to the edges and heat  embossed them  with gold embossing powder  . 

Off to the center is added a  ‘hole’ made by punching a 1 3/4” Basic White circle. I sponge this lightly with Balmy Blue ink as this circle represents the exit from the ‘cave’. At the top of this circle is added a double layered pine swag with a red bow in the center. Under the tree lay some wrapped presents ready to be given out.

The bear, one of the Christmas friends, was embossed with clear embossing powder after stamping with Versafine ink, I added a bit of Smokey Slate to the edge of the fur, coloured the wreath around its neck with Granny Apple Green and the bow and berries with Real Red. After die cutting him with the coordinating die, it is added as shown in the picture with dimensionals.

Supplies Used:

Stamp: Christmas Friends

Inks Black Versafine, Stampin Blends (Smokey Slate. Granny Apple Green. Balmy Blue,  Real Red)

Papers: Basic Black, Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Gold Foil, Farmhouse DSP

Accessories: Coordinating Christmas Friends dies, 1 3/4” circle punch, Gold and Clear Embossing powder, dimensionals

Autumn -Nature’s Color Show for “Classic Designs Challenge #9”

 This is my favourite time of year - if only winter  did not come after. BRR! I love the colours of the leaves this time of year

The leaves changing color are putting on quite a show - both outside and in my craft room. 

I don’t have trees in my craft room, but I have my imagination. I used it to create my own fall coloured leaves. The resultant card I submitted to the challenge at “Classic Designs #9” where the challenge is “Anything Goes with an optional twist of Trees / and or Leaves.

I used the following to create my fall leaves: watercolour paper, blending brushes, water-based ink pads (Daffodil Delight , Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Real Red. Mossy Meadow and Soft Suede, and some water in a spritzer.

Using my blender brushes all of the above colours were added randomly until the entire surface was covered.  I then spritzed water over the entire surface rotating thè paper allowing the Colors to blend together. The paper was then dried using an embossing dryer tool.

After the paper was thoroughly dried I die cut as many leaves as I could using the dies from the Gorgeous Leaves bundle. I also die cut some leaf veins in gold foil. 

The edges of all leaves are sponged with Soft Beige ink.

The Barely Beige card base is layered with a Soft Beige and then a layer of Barely Beige card stock embossed with the Woodlands Embossing folder. With a fine tipped black marker, the marking on the birch trees are high lighted. The edges of the card base, the embossed layer as well as the sentiment punch out,  are sponged with Soft Suede ink.

The leaves and veins are arranged as shown in the picture above, behind a layer of punch outs

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Gorgeous Leaves

Inks: Soft Beige, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive 

Papers: Barely Beige, Soft Beige, Gold Foil, Watercolor  paper

Accessories: Woodland Embossing Folder, spritzer,  
Gorgeous Leaf dies, punches, dimensionals

A Merry Moose Christmas -Try a Sketch on Tuesday # 680

 I can’t believe how warm the weather is for October.  I keep expecting to wake up to cooler temperatures, but the sun continues to shine .

These warm temperatures a makes it difficult to get my head around making Christmas cards. Nevertheless, I thought I would give it a try using the sketch from TSOT.

Here is my card.

On a Blueberry Bush card stock card base I added a piece of the reverse side of one of the Winter Meadow DSP I used in the main image. This I embossed with a snowflake embossing folder.

For the Core Image I used 2 other patterns of the same DSP -one a patten and the other plain.. They look like two 2” squares cut in half and tucked around each other. The edges of both were sponged with Basic Gray ink before they were added to the card front.

In the center is a Merry Moose, which were coloured using those that coordinate with the DSP. After die cutting the image with its coordinating die, the moose was added to a silver glitter die cut circle and then to the center.

Some stars were die cut from the layered silver glitter circle die cut and were added to the solid piece of the Winter Meadow DSP.

The image of a tree was stamped with Shaded Spruce ink, die cut and added behind the die cut moose.

The sentiment was stamped with Shaded Spruce ink, matted with Blueberry Bushel card stock, and added to the card front in front of the image.

Supplies  Used:

Stamp: Christmas Friends

Inks: Black Versa fine, Shaded Spruce, Stampin Blends ( Azure Afternoon, Pacific Point, Crumb Cake, Smokey Slate, Shaded Spruce), Basic Gray

Papers: Blueberry Bushel. Basic White, Silver Glitter paper, Christmas DSP

Accessories : Christmas friends dies, dimensionals. Snowflakes Embossing Folder.

I am also submitting this card to the challenge at Double Trouble #201

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I used 3 patterns from the same  DSP pack

          2 right angled images overlaying each other

           1 image of a Moose

Card a winner at TSOT #679

The following card was selected as one of the top 3 for Challenge # 679

Spooky Oodles for Try a Sketch on Tuesday #697 and Double Trouble #200

Challenge #679 at TSOT involves the use of a sketch with “Oodles of Doodles” anywhere in the project.

My doodle picture had a definite Halloween theme. I doodled with stamps, inks , and line drawings to create an image where the characters  associated with Halloween try to destroy it.

“A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines or shapes, generally without ever lifting the drawing device from the paper, in which case it is usually called a scribble.”

Here is my card:

I started by grabbing my brushes to use Balmy Blue, Misty Moonlight, Starry Sky and Night of Navy to create a dark sky . A 1 1/4" circle masked out a yellow moon. Stars were added using a white metallic pen.

 

The three shapes became my image -the word "BOO".  These die cut letters were left over from a previous project.

 I also pulled out 5 small Penny Black wood mount stamps and using Black Versafine ink stamped the images connecting them to the BOO word.

A sentiment - Beware - was added as a warning to the doodling going on above it.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Penny Black wood mount (Witch, Ghost, Bat large, Bat small, Cobweb), Sentiment "The Grim Reaper" Creative Expressions.

Inks: Balmy Blue, Misty Moonlight. Starry Sky, Night of Navy ,Daffodil Delight, Black Versafine

Papers:  Basic Black, Basic White

Accessories:  Alphabet dies, 1 1/4" circle punch, white metallic pen

This card was also shared with the Double Trouble Challenge #200 

While on Whie cards

 This past weekend was so ‘colourful’ that I made these 2 cards deliberately to ‘wash’ this overload from my brain. 

Both these cards were made using the new 3D Sunflower embossing folder as well as a Texture Embossing folder. 

This is a 5 by 7” card. 

After embossing a piece of Basic White card stock, I used one of the Layering Square die to cut out the image I liked. This I matted with a slightly larger square in Silver foil, followed by another Basic White scalloped die cut.

This completed image piece was added to the card front, the first layer of which was embossed with 3D Texture embossing folder.

A die cut butterfly was added to the top left corner.

The sentiment was die cut twice, adhered together  and then added to a die cut silver foil die. This was added to the bottom  of the card.

Supplies Used:

Paper:  Basic White. Card stock, Silver foil

Accessories: 3D Embossing Folders ( Sunflower, Texture), Layering Square dies. Butterfly die, Spellbinder sentiment Dies 

The second card is a 6 by 6” framed card.

Hidden Flap Christmas card

 This is a card I saw on Pinterest and spent some time figuring out how to make it. On the outside it looks like an ordinary card, but when the card is opened, a hidden flap (little card) is revealed.

Card Base:  Basic White card stock 5 7/8 by 10" Score at 4 1/8 and 8 1/4"

Hidden Flap: Basic White cardstock 4 by 7” scored at 1/2. 3 1/4, 3 3/4, and 4 1/4”. Fold along scored lines and burnish well

The card is opened to reveal the hidden flap

Designer Paper: 

2 different coordinating patterns

Card base: (2) pieces of pattern 1: 4 by 5 5/8” for inside

(1) piece pattern 2: 4 by 5 5/8” for front

Inside tab: DSP:  1 5/8 by 5 5/8” . Adhere to and bottom of inside tab to card base. 

Hidden Flap:  3 pieces: 2 5/8 by 4 3/8”

                        1 piece Basic White sentiment piece  2 5/7 by 4 3/8”

Making the card:

1. Adhere the DSP to the inside of the card base, and add a different pattern of DSP to the front of the card base. Adhere the DSP to the inside flap.  Adhere the flap to the top and bottom of the card base.

2. The Hidden Flap:  Add DSP to the front and the back of the insider.  Add a basic white piece on the inside of the flap. Then fold the flap in half and adhere the areas between the score lines to create a flap.

Insert this flap into the tab.  

Apply glue to the tab at the other end and add it to the inside of the card base at the score lie. Close the card.

Decorate the card as desired.  I fussy cut images from the DSP.

 

An Autumn Pop Up Tiered card - Paper Funday Challenge #80

 I made 3 of these pop up tiered cards using the instructions by Iced Images on her video tutorial here.

Autumn is one of my most favourite times of the year.  Fall changes are beginning to be noticeable in my garden, and when I'm gardening, I hear the geese flying overheard as they gather in the Lake near by. The trees are just beginning to turn here and I just love those wonderful shades of reds, yellows, greens,& oranges in the back drop of a robin egg blue sky.

I made this card with fall in mind - especially the falling leaves.  It is a pop up tiered card. I made an earlier card for a Birthday card challenge here

Our theme is: Anything Goes with the Optional Twist of: Changing Seasons

Here is how I created the color palette for the leaves. On a piece of watercolor paper, I added red, yellow, orange, green, dark green, blue ink using a finger dauber.  Then I spritzed the inked watercolor paper, moving the paper around to blend the colors.

When dry, I used leaf dies from Gorgeous Leaves and Autumn Leaves. to die cut leaves which I incorporated into my card design.

I also used die cuts from On the Horizon.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Gorgeous Leaves, Autumn Leaves, On the Horizon

Inks:  Versa Mark, Inks for color palette

Papers:  Autumn Splendor DSP, Garden Green, Basic White, Very Vanilla, Granny Apple Green, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze

Accessories:  Gorgeous Leaves dies, Autumn Leaves dies, On the Horizon dies, Glossy embellishments, Copper embossing powder

Shaker cupcake birthday for Try A Sketch on Tuesday #678 Double Trouble #199

This card was made for the sketch challenge  Try A Sketch  on Tuesday #678 as well as Double Dare # 199.

In my card, the aperture was changed to a birthday  cupcake -a shaker cupcake with chocolate shaker elements. The heart became a party hat.

The card has 3 layers not counting the card base- a basic white layer followed by a DSP layer (Rosie’s Sunshine Afternoon). The final layer is the image layer with the chocolate shaker cupcake, the party hat, and the sentiment. All of these are mounted on dimensionals. I added a few chocolate sprinkles that escaped from the cupcake.

Below is a close up of the cupcake

An angle view.

Supplies Used:

Stamp: Sweet Birthday Occasions ( Close to my Heart)

Inks: Black Versa Mark, Stampin Blends ( chocolate Brown, various other Colors)

Accessories: Sweet Birthday dies, chocolate shaker embellishments, window sheet, dimensionals, Ckear embossing powder

Suspended Book Fold Card

This card fold intrigued me when I saw it on a video tutorial by Jan B , a Stampin Up demonstrator in the UK.

Making this card was not as difficult as I thought it would be.

In the picture above you see the mechanism between the card base and the “book”

Below is the inside of the card.

Supplies Used

Stamp:

Inks: Black Versamark, Balmy Blue, Stampin Blends ( Balmy Blue, real Red, Basic Gray, Smokey Slate, Old Olive)

Papers Pacific Point, Basic White, DSP

Accessories: coordinating dies,